Richard E. Hoagland

The Honorable Richard Eugene Hoagland
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Coordinator for international peacemaking efforts on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Incumbent
Assumed office 2020
Preceded by	Position established
U.S. Deputy Ambassador to Pakistan
In office January 2011–October 2013
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Vacant
Interim U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
In office Mid 2017–Late 2017
Preceded by	Position established*
Succeeded by	Andrew Schofer
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs
In office 2013–2015
Senior U.S. liaison to the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria
In office 2016–2017
U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan
In office 2003–2006
Preceded by	Franklin Huddle
Succeeded by	Tracey Ann Jacobson
Chargé d'affaires to Turkmenistan
In office July 2007–July 2008
Preceded by	Jennifer Leigh Brush
Succeeded by	Richard Miles
U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan
In office 2008–January 2011
Preceded by	John M. Ordway
Succeeded by	John M. Ordway
U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Afghanistan
In office 1991–1992
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Vacant
Personal details
Born	1950 (age 73–74)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Grenoble University of Virginia
Occupation	Diplomat

Richard Eugene Hoagland (born 1950, Fort Wayne, Indiana)^[1] is a career ambassador in the United States Department of State. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in State's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs from 2013-2015.^[2] In the summer of 2016, based at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, he was the senior U.S. liaison to the Russian Reconciliation Center at the Russian military base in Latakia, Syria. In 2017 he served as interim U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the group appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to coordinate international peace-making efforts on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.^[3]